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Smart-Farming of Irrigated Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges
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Smart-Farming of Irrigated Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 February 2022) | Viewed by 2880

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Dr. Stefano Marino

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Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
Interests: agronomy; precision agriculture; crop yield; fertilization; irrigation; remote sensing; horticultural crops; vegetation indices
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Dear Colleagues,

Intensifying water constraints threaten food security and nutrition. The freshwater resources available per person have declined, and levels of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are now at their highest in history. Agricultural production and its effect on land use are major sources of these emissions. Furthermore, agriculture has an important role to play on the path to sustainability, as irrigated agriculture accounts for more than 70% of global water withdrawals. In addition, climate change is already seriously disrupting rainfall patterns. In a context of scarcity of water resources and high consumption of resources by agriculture, irrigation becomes a major scientific and societal challenge.

Smart farming systems, e.g., remote and proximal sensing instruments and techniques, weather station and soil moisture sensors, innovative irrigation systems and instruments for monitoring irrigation, enable advanced decision support, smart analyses and planning, improving irrigation sustainability.

In this Special Issue, we are open to contributions exploring the opportunities and challenges of smart farming, and the advancement of irrigation systems and technologies. 

Prof. Dr. Stefano Marino
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agronomy is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • smart farming
  • remote and proximal sensing
  • IoT-based sensor applications in smart farming
  • sensor and tool development
  • greenhouses and open field crops

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Influence of Water Management Farming Practices on Soil Organic Carbon and Nutrients: A Case Study of Rice Farming in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
by Edmond Alavaisha, Madaka Tumbo, Jacqueline Senyangwa and Sixbert Mourice
Agronomy 2022, 12(5), 1148; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/agronomy12051148 - 10 May 2022
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Water scarcity and nutrient availability for rice farming have become great matters of concern in the contexts of climate change and land use change globally. Both interact and contribute to crop productivity at the expense of nutrients and future water sustainability. The objective [...] Read more.
Water scarcity and nutrient availability for rice farming have become great matters of concern in the contexts of climate change and land use change globally. Both interact and contribute to crop productivity at the expense of nutrients and future water sustainability. The objective of this study was to understand the on-farm potential response of soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorous (TP) to water management practices in rice farming within the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Soil samples were collected from three villages in the study area at four depths: 0–20, 20–30, 30–40, and 40–50 cm. Four water management regimes, namely: A = traditional flooding (rainfed) without intensification of rice farming; B = traditional flooding (rainfed) involving a system of rice intensification (SRI); C = alternative wetting and drying (AWD) involving SRI for one cropping season; D = abandoned fields (fallow); and E = AWD involving SRI for two cropping seasons, were investigated as regards their impact on SOC, TN, and TP. There were significant (p < 0.05) effects of water management regimes on SOC, TN, and TP. AWD involving SRI for one cropping season indicated a positive effect on SOC and TN across all depths as compared to other practices. We conclude that water management practice that involves AWD with SRI for one cropping season is a plausible approach to maintaining high SOC and TN, with the potential for increasing crop production while minimizing water consumption. Full article
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